An email proxy server system gives the user access to all of their email accounts
through a unified port. The proxy server maintains a mail registration database
associating the user's ID with multiple email accounts, which may be hosted on
different Internet providers and otherwise. The email messages stored on the email
hosts may be in POP3 format, which configuration the proxy server imitates to give
the user an impression of transparent access to all of their email accounts. Because
the ability to access individual mail boxes is unbound from particular internet
addresses, one user may maintain any number of email mail boxes at different hosting
servers, and change those addresses, without having to reprogram client, server,
and other software. Moreover, the presentation of the integrated interface of the
invention permits system administrators to attach service modules, such as billing
and other packages directly to the proxy server to serve each of the different
email accounts, without having to tailor those individual services to individual
hosts hardware.